Ground Noise And Static

In November, one or the other of the corporate candidates will win, and then, as always, it will be what the people do, not the politicians, that counts.

A video report on the protests that occurred in connection with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions, Ground Noise & Static is a manifesto. We went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. Corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians, we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, “This is what democracy looks like.”
Ground Noise & Static is a joint effort of Franklin López of subMedia.TV and PepperSpray Productions. It is the direct result of a wonderful collaboration with many indymedia-style activists and journalists who all pitched in for the common good and success of their various efforts to tell their “Unconventional” stories.

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* Franklin López of subMedia and Lambert Rochfort and Ariel Wetzelf of Pepperspray Productions present for Q and A
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[...] submedia.tv/stimulator/2008/10/06/ground-noise-and-static/ A video report on the protests that occurred in connection with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions, Ground Noise & Static is a manifesto. We went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. Corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians, we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, “This is what democracy looks like.” [...]

[...] Ground Noise and Static is a new documentary about what happened in the streets outside the political conventions this summer and covers some of the things America didn’t get to see on their televisions. This video is a snapshot of American dissent during this historic election year. Check it out here. [...]

I had no idea… I stumbled across Ground Noise & Static on Miro. Thank God I did… I have been wandering through this madness for years wondering why no one else noticed that we had been sold. I was beginning to question my fucking sanity… the corporate media hid a very promising factor … there are others… Thank God.

That shit rocked.. I mean who are them guys?? I can’t find them with a google lyrics search… whats up with that?? for really someones gotta tell me, who is doing the music? When they all ganged up on me I kicked their collective ass! That song is a rocken.

[...] In fact, there were more police assembled along Hollywood Boulevard than I’d seen since the RNC in St. Paul. There were dozens of riot cops in lines, mounted riot cops on horseback, and two long rows of squad [...]

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[...] Ground Noise And Static – A video report on the protests that occurred in connection with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions. Ground Noise & Static is a manifesto. ‘Stimulator‘ went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. Corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians, we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, “This is what democracy looks like.” [...]

[...] My blog was broken for a while, but I finally figured out how to fix it. Besides an occasional post I’ll write for Feminist SF — The Blog!, I haven’t had much of an internet social life these last few years. Grad school and not having the internet at home didn’t help, but I largely have been focusing my activism on community and labor organizing. I guess I took the Le Tigre song, “Get off the internet” to heart. I went to my first mass convergence last summer, protesting both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. I should have posted this link 8 months ago, but check out the report-back video I worked on with submedia and Pepperspray Productions, Ground Noise and Static. [...]

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